Dennis Itumbi, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya's Annual national budget favoured the youth Most with various incentives to encourage employment, enterpreneurship, constituency based sports and others. Youth and Sports Minister Hellen Sambili reacts.
The Youth who make up more than half of the population will benefit from a fully funded football tournament at the Constituency Level every year, a National Youth Policy will also be passed to make it compulsory for companies to offer internships and the formation of a National Youth Council.
Artists in the country all of whom are young people will benefit from tax exemption in the event they are pay taxes while performing abroad.
Youths will also pay less for Bread and Rice as Finance Minister Amos Kimunya zero rated tax on the commodities.
The Minister in his third presentation since being appointed to the position in 2006 also said that Parliament would review the Armed Forces Act to allow youths trained in the National Youth Service to join the army upon graduation.
The government also pledged to build a youth Friendly Business Processing Market in Nairobi to benefit the thousands of youthful hawkers in the country.
Import duty on cement was also removed to encourage youths build cheap homes.
However the youths on the other hand will have to bear the blunt of a proposed law on Organized crime that seeks to fight militia like Mungiki.
On the other hand young graduates in Education will be employed with speed if the proposals by the minister are adopted.
Youths who smoke will also pay an extra Shs.7 per packet, in an effort to discourage the vice.